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Title: Death Wave

Subtitle: Deep Black, Book 9

Author: Stephen Coonts, William H. Keith

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort destination of millionaires. But underneath this idyllic paradise is one of the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism that could devastate the U.S. East Coast, striking it with waves up to 1,000 feet high.

In the central Asian Republic of Tajikistan, 12 nuclear warheads, stolen by the Russian Mafia, are about to be smuggled out of the country into the hands of the conspirators. Charlie and Ilya go on an intercept mission, but before they can retrieve them, the weapons disappear.

Lia is sent to Berlin to infiltrate the operations of a ruthless Chinese billionaire, whose machinations have come to the attention of the NSA. She risks immediate execution if her true identity is revealed.

Meanwhile, in a hotel in New Jersey, a best-selling author is assassinated to prevent the release of his stranger-than-fiction story about an Islamic plot to change the course of history.

Their paths all converge in the Canary Islands, where Lia finds herself in the hands of a sadistic torturer. Unless the Deep Black team intervenes, the islands could be the epicenter of apocalypse, with millions of lives and the entire world order at stake.

Members Reviews:

Okay, but not the best 'Deep Black' title

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Love the Stephen Coonts series Deep Black and I enjoyed this one okay, but not his best story.

Have you listened to any of Phil Gigantes other performances before? How does this one compare?

It's been a few books ago, but I don't recall disliking this performance.

Do you think Death Wave needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

no. Not the best story line.

Any additional comments?

Audible.com needs to provide more lower priced audiobooks in this genre.

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Title: Hell's Corner: Camel Club, Book 5

Author: David Baldacci

Narrator: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-10

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

The Camel Club returns in the breathtaking follow up to Divine Justice from the Number One International Bestselling author.

On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in what looks like a terrorist plot directed at the President and the Prime Minister.

In the aftermath, British MI5 agent Mary Chapman, an experienced, lethal operative with an agenda of her own, is sent to assist and coordinate the investigation alongside American authorities. Stone, together with Harry Finn, Alex Ford and the rest of the Camel Club, is drawn into the inquiry.

But everything is not what it seems, and what happened in the park may not have been the actual plan. It seems the mysterious attackers had another target in their sights, and its up to the Camel Club to stop them, or face the catastrophic results.

Members Reviews:

Amazing

Loads of twists and turns , mind blowing from plot to finish .

Great job . Hope to see more of the Camel club soon .

Boring!

I used to enjoy David Baldacci's books, especially the Camel Club series, but this one just can not hold my attention! I started with this book a few weeks ago and gave up on it before it was half way cause I just could not find a reason to continue! Up to that point everything revolved around the park and there was no suspense, just a lot of talk. Moving so slow I fell asleep several times. Please let me know it gets better so that I can try to complete the listen somewhere in the future.

Good but more of the same

I have read almost all of Baldacci's work and while this is nothing new it kept my interest. The story rattles along at a good pace and has enough twists and turns but as always it's the characters that I struggle with - they are just too perfect for their roles. You can always tell who the sacrificial lamb will be (normally the female side kick who Oliver Stone has been forced to work with) and that in the end stone will triumph. If you can ignore the obvious the its not a bad listen

Did not dissapoint

Brilliant story lots of twists and turns could not put it down carnt wait for more Baldacci.

A hellish good listen.

I have been a fan of David Baldacci for some time and have read most of his books. So it was a pleasure to listen to the story of the Camel Club (how does one join?) dealing with the twists and turns of the plot. A fascinating story well narrated by Ron McLarty. I am not sure that the use of two narrators works so well, just a personal preference.

As usual, a well devised plot, characters that have credibility and an execution of the plot that makes you wonder what turns are coming and indeed where the next corner maybe.

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Title: The Moscow Club

Author: Joseph Finder

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-10

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Assigned to examine a portentous tape sneaked out of Moscow by a mole, CIA Kremlinologist Charlie Stone finds himself in an espionage investigation of staggering complexity. As he hops among three continents, often the target of both the KGB and the CIA, Stone succeeds in vindicating his father, branded a traitor by McCarthy, while nosing out a plot by the head of the KGB to stage a violent coup during a Moscow summit that will end glasnost and set the world on its ear.

The audio includes an excerpt from Vanished, the first Nick Heller novel.

Members Reviews:

Finder's first, not his best, but still a great read

Looking for a spy thriller that might keep you up at night?

If you suspend disbelief, as science fiction writers ask you to do, you may enjoy this intricately plotted thriller from one of Americaâs best contemporary novelists of suspense. For starters, youâll need to imagine a brilliant young CIA analyst with a near-eidetic memory who is also, though untrained, accomplished in hand-to-hand combat, picking locks, and repairing cars. Oh, and heâs devilishly handsome to boot and is married to a rising young network TV reporter who is, of course, drop-dead gorgeous. And though both are Americans, they speak fluent Russian (admittedly, hers is a little better than his).

But wait, thereâs more. First, thereâs a super-secret arm of the CIA that operates out of a townhouse in Manhattan (like the one where Robert Redford worked in the film âThree Days of the Condor,â which had been released more than a decade previously) â plus a super-secret cabal within the most senior reaches of the US government that will go to any lengths to preserve the secrecy of a nefarious espionage plot theyâd hatched in 1950. Second, within the Soviet Union â the book is set in 1989 and was published in 1991 â there are two (count âem: two) super-secret organizations within the most senior level of the Soviet government, both of them involving the KGB but working at cross-purposes.

If you can live with all that, youâll love The Moscow Club. Abundant absurdities aside, I did. The suspense is nerve-wracking.

Joseph Finder is one of my favorite thriller writers. The Moscow Club, published in 1991, was his first novel (and it shows). Heâs written ten since then. Of those, Iâve read Vanished, which I found disappointing; Suspicion, Finderâs most recent â and, to my mind, best â thriller to date; plus Buried Secrets, High Crimes, and The Zero Hour, all of them excellent recent works.

Second Rate

Second rate thriller peopled by stock characters narrowly escaping danger with their larger-than-life skillsets. Deep conspiracies by Very Important People. Really, if you like Robert Ludlum, this might be your cup of tea. If you like spy novels, keep moving, nothing to see here.

I only made it a couple of hundred pages before I tired of it.

Finder's first novel: a worthy effort

The Moscow Club is Joseph Finder's first novel. It is the work of a writer who hasn't yet mastered his craft. Finder's writing style too often depends on clichéd expressions: a house of cards falls, a character knows something like the back of his hand, and secrecy is for the birds. Chase scenes read like descriptions of the chases in bad television shows. Sex scenes are sophomoric.

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Titel: Cobra

Autor:: Frederick Forsyth

Erzähler: Sascha Rotermund

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-28-10

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

International agierende Drogenkartelle setzen pro Jahr Kokain im Wert von mehreren Milliarden Dollar um und werden immer größer, einflussreicher... eine Plage. Das Weiße Haus beschließt, endlich einzugreifen, und erteilt Ex-CIA-Agent Paul Deveraux - genannt Cobra - einen Geheimauftrag: Er soll das kolumbianische Kartell der Kartelle zu Fall bringen. Mit allen Mitteln.

Bald werden Drogenhändler als Terroristen eingestuft, gnadenlos gejagt und ausgelöscht. Lieferanten und Abnehmer werden gegeneinander aufgehetzt. Deverauxs Plan, der das Ende des internationalen Kokainhandels bedeutet, scheint aufzugehen...bis die Situation plötzlich zu eskalieren droht.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Die Romane von Frederick Forsyth sind so nahe an der Wirklichkeit, dass man sie fast schon als Prophezeihung lesen kann.

--ZDF Aspekte

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Title: A Darker Place

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Ministers private army" for his escape and concealment.

Its a real coup for the West except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels, and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to do or where he has to go...or whom he has to kill.

Filled with suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, A Darker Place once again proves that, in the words of the Associated Press, When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd - Jack Higgins.

Critic Reviews:

"The final dustup is a little rushed, but the crisp writing shows Higgins to be on top of his game." (

Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

A Darker Place

Excellent reader. So so story. Didn't grab me. I will not listen to it again.

Any Vince Flynn book is far better.

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Title: The Secret Pilgrim (Dramatised)

Author: John le Carré

Narrator: Simon Russell Beale, Patrick Malahide

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carrés last Smiley novel.

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin.

The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the worlds second oldest profession is very much alive. Smiley accepts an invitation to dine with the eager young men and women of the Circus latest intake, and over coffee and brandy, by flickering firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts on espionage past, present, and future. In doing so, he prompts one of his former Circus colleagues into a searching examination of his own eventful secret life.

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Patrick Malahide as Ned, this engrossing dramatisation brings le Carrés masterful novel vividly to life.

Members Reviews:

Spies, spies, spies. Looking for a good time

Always a good combination: Le Carre and a BBC dramatisation.

Worth a listen. A lot going on, though not the most cohesive Le Carre plot.

Excellent production of episodic book

This is another very good dramatisation of the last book in which George Smiley appears, As a text the book is somewhat episodic but this production brings it all together particularly with Patrick Malahide as Ned. This work is as good in it's own way as the author's reading of his own work. A great read and a great listen.

Poor substitute for a good reading

I got this book along with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and was extremely disappointed. I have the same books released by Listen for Pleasure Ltd. on cassette that are far superior. These dramatizations are incomplete and don't tell the LeCarre stories well at all. I deleted after listening--along with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. For me that is the lowest of the low. Go find a good reading of LeCarre books and don't waste your time with this.

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Title: Tapestry of Spies

Author: Stephen Hunter

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was an old school chum to Raines and had every reason to hate him.

The British are not alone on Raines' trail. The ruthless Communist leader in Barcelona believes that the identity of the double agent conceals a powerful and profitable secret.... This is a novel that constantly surprises. (Originally published as The Spanish Gambit.)

Critic Reviews:

"Brilliant." (Tom Clancy)

"Stephen Hunter is the best writer of straight-out thrillers working today." (Rocky Mountain News)

Members Reviews:

A different kind of Stephen Hunter

Since I always like everything Hunter writes I may be an easy grader, but I really enjoyed this. Well, actually it started kind of slow, but once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. If you are a Bob Lee Swagger fan (I've read them all) you should be aware that this is a different kind Stephen Hunter.

This is essentially a spy story involving the international intrigues surrounding the Spanish Civil War. Unlike Bob Lee Swagger, our reluctant hero is an Everyman; drawn very much against his will into a world where no one is exactly who they seem to be and everyone is playing the game better than he is. Imagine John Le Carre meets â well â Stephen Hunter.

Does anyone know if this was ever a movie? For about the first five chapters, I had this vague sense of deja vu.

I like Stephen Hunter as a writer and at first this ...

I like Stephen Hunter as a writer and at first this was a bit hard to follow since the time lines jump ahead without a seque, but if you stay with it, it is not a bad read. Would have preferred a bit more closure for the ending since invested a lot of time with the characters.

Complex and Confusing

The setting is the Spanish civil war in the 1930's--a complex event even many historians don't understand. On top of this complexity, the author weaves a confusing plot with multiple competing players and a confusing array of factions. If you speak Spanish and dabble in the history of the era, this book is for you ... and this reviewer is a huge fan of Mr. Hunter. It ends abruptly with much of the "behind the scenes" plot revealed in a few paragraphs, leaving this reader wondering how it all came together. This reviewer's prediction is this book will become a great movie some day.

Hunter Still Has His Swagger And Style In This Book

One of Hunters earlier works- with an engaging plot and some twists; recommended if you like some of his Swagger books. Fast moving adventure.

he became a better writer.

Early Hunter, he became a better writer.

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Title: Absolute Friends

Author: John le Carré

Narrator: Michael Jayston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-10

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldiers son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.

The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late 60s, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in todays world of terror. Spanning 56 years, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times.

Members Reviews:

A sort of accidental spy

Masterfully read by Jayston, brilliant ending that would never be the same in a movie version.

The perfect voice for the master's story

John Le Carre writes quite amazing stories - about flawed innocents with pure intentions caught up in the mendacities of the real word. There is something about Michael Jayston's voice, the slightly jaded world-weariness, that makes it quite the perfect vehicle for Le Carre's writing.

Revolution in order to establish the dictatorship

George Orwell.

The character set up takes the entire book and in the end, you realise that you knew nothing of their real motivations, I could not care for either; Ted Mundy is a bitter dislocated man that lives in between cultures and belongs to no culture he just touches the surfaces without feeling or understanding the motivations and is influenced by all that have authority over him, he is a chameleon responding to external colours but he has none of his own. Sasha is the revolutionary friend that just wants chaos to rule but has no real convictions just a promoter of self-destruction and anarchy for the sake of anarchy as a response to his hate for his father. They are not likeable or easy to understand they are after 465 pages but shadows of political animals that feed at the bottom of political intrigue.

Also surprisingly the great taboo of Islamic criticism is evident here, no real explanation is given for the shadowy money moving from Dubai or the ideas that promote it, we can talk of all other isms but not Islamism, this self-sensorchip is astonishing to me when it comes from such a great author; Milos Forman said "The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself". that is the influence that this evil gives the book, in the end, the only bad people are the ones we can be criticised the others float like angels by the side of God no matter how covered in blood they are, unbalancing the story and the message supporting all the allegations that all terror attacks are but the product of a political misunderstandings, or secret societies, that everyone knows about.

Disappointing ending and plot, with interesting descriptions of historical events throughout the life of the two characters.

Absolute

This was never one of Le Carre's best received novels. But with the wisdom hindsight, I the cold light of a post 9/11 day it it perhaps his most brutally honest and terrifying. I read it when it came out and listed to it again in November 2015. It is Jayston - the best reader of Le Carre my a long chalk mark - at his very best.

Presentation aside, it is the content which on second visit I found so astonishing.

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Titel: Die Löwen

Autor:: Ken Follett

Erzähler: Ulrich Pleitgen

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-29-09

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Ken Follet ist einfach Hochspannung pur. Recherche bestens, ...

Ken Follet ist einfach Hochspannung pur.

Recherche bestens, Figuren unverwechselbar, pausenlose Spannung... und man lernt zudem noch etwas.

Was will man mehr!

Five Stars

Great story, full of suspense!

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Title: Notorious

Subtitle: Retro Audio

Author: Ben Hecht

Narrator: Ingrid Bergman

Format: Abridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Here is the classic audio-play dramatisation of the Hitchcock film, starring Ingrid Bergman. Bergman plays the part of a daughter of a traitor who is recruited by a spy to assist him. As the story develops, they fall in love but are torn when she is ordered to seduce a suspect. Follow this tale of love, spies, duty, and mystery! This is one of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

(P)2007 P. D.